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For Democratic Socialism September/October 2015 #276 £2 Historic Moment? CHARTIST For democratic socialism September/October 2015 #276 £2 Historic moment? Dave Prentis Trade unions Rosa de la Fuente Spain Louise Hoj Larsen TTIP Tim Jones Greek debt Andy Gregg Refugees ISSN - 0968 7866 ISSUE www.chartist.org.uk Contributions and letters deadline for CONTENTS CHARTIST #277 FEATURES Editorial Policy 11th October 2015 Chartist welcomes articles, of 800 or 1500 words, and TU RIGHTS UNDER THREAT The editorial policy of CHARTIST is to letters in electronic format only to:[email protected] promote debate amongst people active in UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis radical politics about the contemporary Receive Chartist’s online newsletter: send your email address to 8 takes on the Tories relevance of democratic socialism across [email protected] the spectrum of politics, economics, science, philosophy, art, interpersonal Chartist Advert Rates: relations – in short, the whole realm of WELFARE TRAP social life. Inside Full page £200; 1/2 page £125; 1/4 page £75; 1/8 page £40; 1/16 page £25; small box John Percival reveals the elephant trap set 5x2cm £15 single sheet insert £50 for Labour Our concern is with both democracy and We are also interested in advert swaps with other publications. To place an advert, please 9 socialism. The history of the last century email: [email protected] has made it abundantly clear that the mass of the population of the advanced WHY LABOUR LOST capitalist countries will have no interest in any form of socialism which is not CHARTIST on the web, social media and blogosphere! Peter Rowlands sifts the evidence and thoroughly democratic in its principles, 10 bins the spin its practices, its morality and its ideals. Yet the consequences of this deep attach - JOIN THE DEBATE! ment to democracy – one of the greatest advances of our epoch – are seldom Labour at a cross roads: pages 9 & 12 RENEWING DEMOCRATIC Cover by Martin Rowson, originally reflected in the discussion and debates SOCIALISM Paul printed in the Daily Mirror. amongst active socialists. 12 Reynolds show how there is all to work for Reprinted with permission CHARTIST is not a party publication. It brings together people who are interested in socialism, some of whom are active the MEDITERRANEAN REFUGEES Labour Party and the trade union move - CHARTIST ment. It is concerned to deepen and Andy Gregg refocuses on the people and extend a dialogue with all other socialists 14 their plight FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM and with activists from other movements Number 276 September/October 2015 involved in the struggle to find democrat - ic alternatives to the oppression, exploita - tion and injustices of capitalism and www.CHARTIST.org.uk GREEK DEBT class society Global Justice’s Tim Jones sets out the REGULARS @Chartist48 case for write-off Editorial Board 16 EDITORIAL CHARTIST is published six times a year ADVERTISEMENT GREEK POLITICS 4 A new way or will it be axed? by the Chartist Collective. This issue was Isidoros Diakides and Mike Davis report produced by an Editorial Board consisting on the forthcoming General Election POINTS AND CROSSINGS of Duncan Bowie (Reviews), Peter Chalk, 18 6 Paul Salveson on rail Mike Davis (Editor), Nigel Doggett, David Greece: pages 16 to 18 renationalisation Floyd, Don Flynn, Roger Gillham, Peter Kenyon (Treasurer), Frank Lee, Dave SPANISH CITIES IN REVOLT GREENWATCH Lister, Andy Morton (Production Editor), Read every fortnight 7 Dave Toke rings alarm bells Robbie Scott, Mary Southcott, James TRIBUNE Rosa de la Fuente explains how activists Grayson, Patricia d’Ardenne, Sheila News, interviews, analysis, opinion, features and reviews 19 are now in charge FILM REVIEW Osmanovic and Patrick Mulcahy. plus the hottest political gossip in the labour movement 25 Patrick Mulcahy on Iranian film Production was undertaken by Andy BOOK REVIEWS Morton “The strongest pieces of leftist analysis being written RETHINKING EUROPE 26 Duncan Bowie on Blair, urban at the moment are to be found in Tribune” Frank Lee thinks the project is finished China and British socialism, Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of – Financial Times Mike Davis on Living history and the EB 20 Operation Ajax, Ben Francis on Subscribe to Tribune NOW! 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WESTMINSTER VIEW Email: [email protected] 32 Cat Smith MP on www.tribunemagazine.org Corbynmania Website: www.chartist.org.uk WESTMINSTER BUBBLE Email: [email protected] tel: 07505 395 719 TTIP - page 22 Trevor Fisher challenges political elitism Twitter: @Chartist48 Newsletter online: to join, email 24 [email protected] September/October 2015 CHARTIST 3 EDITORIAL and commitment from which to draw in a newly energised of people fleeing civil wars, repression and dictatorships in party. North Africa is brought under the spotlight by Andy Popular policies, consistently campaigned for, will have Gregg . He focuses on the plight of Eritreans and the the ability to appeal to disaffected former Labour voters, under-reported situation in that brutal Horn of Africa many who voted UKIP, will appeal to Tory voters who state. But the questions are the same. What concerted voted for the real thing rather than austerity lite and approach will the European Union take to support A new way or many hundreds of thousands of new, young voters. migrants? How will Britain welcome asylum seekers and Corbyn's policies appeal to the underdog, workers and refugees? immigrants as well as ‘aspirational’ voters, (though who The ‘migrant crisis’ (a term like Al-Jazeera, we will now doesn’t have aspirations?) on a people’s EU, education, seek to avoid) brings into relief the issue of what the housing, culture and enterprise. At root it is about a robust European Union is for. Currently the emphasis is more on opposition to Tory policies of inequality, exploitation and disunion. This is what the beleaguered Greek government attacks on human rights pitted against an alternative have found. Having achieved a huge mandate for a new vision of a democratic social republic in which wealth is deal within Europe in January, the SYRIZA-led Athens will it be axed? redistributed, democracy is enhanced and the economy regime negotiated in good faith for a further loan with debt works primarily for people not markets and Mammon. relief and restructuring. They have ended up with a fur - Whoever wins they will have 4-1/2 years to consolidate ther round of austerity and privatisation in exchange for a that transformation of the terms of political engagement. third bail-out of £60bn. Whether debt relief will result is in The fatalists say impossible, the nay sayers utopian. But the balance but as Tim Jones of Jubilee Debt Campaign an economy and a world geared to the needs of the many argues, without debt forgiveness the Greek economy, like ritish Labour Party politics is at a crossroads. ships and lauding entrepreneurs, SMEs and co-operatives. not the few is a world both worth fighting for and achieve- Latin American and African countries before, will have lit- Jeremy Corbyn MP’s nomination as a Yes, he proposes to renationalisie energy companies and able. Who would tle chance of recov - Leadership candidate has dramatically trans - railways, but not in the context of state control. He wants have thought after ery. The neo-liberals formed the contest. He has done it with great consumer and worker involvement - democratic control. the dismay of 8 May who currently run dignity, clarity of thought and purpose. The common ownership Clause 4 which Blair ditched to 2015, that goal Europe seem blind BWin or lose, Corbyn has provided a vivid illustration of might be in sight to the long term seal his victory in 1997 will not be a centrepiece of how Labour politicians need never again be accused of Corbyn’s campaign despite the critics. He acknowledges again after just prospects. Greece being the same as the Tories. He has attracted back young that a public-private mix is the way forward, but that pri - another five years in finds itself between and old Labourites in numbers not seen since the end of vate profit and the market have come to dominate the neo- opposition? a rock and a hard the 1970s. liberal economic world of the Tories and New Labour. He This edition of place as Isidoros This is all despite former leader Tony Blair’s cataclysmic starts from the proposition that people’s needs and welfare Chartist was largely Diakides and warnings: ‘Civilisation as we know it will end.’ ‘The world must come first. written a month Mike Davis report will cave in.’ ‘Annihilation is at hand’. His PR man Alastair Corbynomics embraces the alternative to Tory austerity, before the ballot on the latest ‘deal’. (dodgy-dossier) Campbell claimed Corbyn ‘would kill that the Labour Party leadership singularly failed to spell closed. A shift in the politi- Labour’. Blairite acolytes launched an ‘ABC-anyone but out with enough clarity or conviction to win the 2015 Whether it' is cal balance of forces Corbyn' campaign. As the ballot papers were despatched, General Election. Burnham, Cooper or in Europe is urgent- all they seemed to have achieved is to encourage He is also an internationalist.
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